chore: sync 2 org-standard workflow stub(s) from petry-projects/.github

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User description

Syncs the following org-standard workflow stub(s) from petry-projects/.github (standards/workflows/), deployed verbatim:

• initiative-driver.yml
• pr-auto-review.yml

Opened by scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh. Stubs are thin callers; all behaviour lives in the reusables. See standards/ci-standards.md. Labeled standards-sync and left for the normal review/auto-merge pipeline — the deploy script never merges directly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Workflow Updates
  • Added an admission check before initiative-driver dispatches.
  • Dispatches are deferred cleanly when the agent rate limit is reached, without cancelling the workflow or reporting a job failure.
  • If the check is unavailable or fails to produce a decision, dispatch continues.
  • Updated credential guidance to reference the current personal access token setting, while retaining support for the legacy setting.

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CodeAnt-AI Description

Prevent excessive initiative workflow dispatches without blocking recovery

What Changed

• Initiative workflow dispatches now pass through a rate-limit check for concurrency, cooldowns, daily budgets, and repeated failures.
• When limits are reached, the dispatch is cleanly deferred without cancelling another run or failing the workflow.
• If rate-limit tooling is unavailable or produces no decision, dispatch continues so tooling outages do not stop initiative processing.
• The workflow now prefers GH_PAT_DON_PETRY while retaining support for GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS.
• Updated the locked js-yaml dependency to version 4.3.2.

Impact

✅ Fewer competing initiative dispatches
✅ Prevented dispatches during rate-limit cooldowns
✅ Initiative processing continues during gate-tooling outages

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In @.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:
- Line 106: Update the PAT-backed tooling checkout configuration using the
checkout action’s ref setting to replace mutable ref v1 with the approved full
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• .github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's quiescence-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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PR: #585
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## Analysis
I've reviewed the bot comment, CI check results, and PR review state for #585.
**Findings:**
1. **Bot Comment:** The SonarCloud comment reports a quality gate *pass* with zero new issues, zero security hotspots, and zero coverage/duplication concerns. This is a neutral summary/overview, not an actionable defect.
2. **Tier 1 Blockers:** All CI checks passed (17 success, 7 skipped). All reviews are `COMMENTED` state—no `CHANGES_REQUESTED` or check failures.
3. **Actionability:** There are no specific code issues, security vulnerabilities, or violations tied to file/line numbers. The bot is simply confirming the PR meets quality standards.
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## Result
**No changes required.**
The bot comment is a positive overview confirming the PR passes quality gates. Per the task guardrails, neutral overview summaries without specific, actionable defects are not addressed by reverting or modifying the PR's own changes.

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Acknowledged — SonarCloud Quality Gate passed on the current head. Informational only; no code action required.

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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (no-changes)

Agent reasoning

Addressed 0 threads. There were no open review threads and no `CHANGES_REQUESTED` reviews, and I made no code changes.
- **CI:** No check has failed. Two `dev-lead / dispatch` runs show `cancelled`, but they're superseded runs from the same PR (the dispatch concurrency group). A newer `dispatch` run is still in progress, so I didn't treat the cancelled ones as blockers.
- **Reviews:** All three are `COMMENTED` (codeant-ai, coderabbitai, don-petry), which is neutral, so I reverted nothing.
- **Issue comments:** I paginated the PR's issue comments. Everything from external bots (CodeAnt, Qodo, Codex, Gemini, CodeRabbit, SonarCloud) is already minimized and has a disposition reply from the earlier pass. The rest are our own automation markers (dev-lead and pr-review-agent). I posted no new dispositions.
- **Tests:** I didn't run them, since nothing changed.
Files changed: none.

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Superseded by automated re-review at 21ef5a49cac2caec0d9de3ac8bfd7fe442fe4aa5 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 1/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: dd366d96cd03da6c80d7d21075f4300c7f38b158
Cascade: triage → audit (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5.5, sonnet 5] → deep: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, sonnet 5.5] + duck: gemini-3.8-flash [sonnet 5.5] → audit: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, opus 4.7])

Summary

The stub matches the source of truth (petry-projects/.github main) exactly. The supply-chain risk is mostly mitigated: the 'release-channel-tags' ruleset blocks updating or deleting refs/tags/**, so v1 is effectively immutable, and the checkout runs first-party code with persist-credentials:false. But the change does nothing: scripts/agent-rate-limit-gate.sh does not exist at the v1 tag (commit d3d768d, 2026-05-13). The gate step therefore always exits 127, '|| true' swallows the error, and every run dispatches. On top of that, the required npm audit check fails (it also fails on main, so the PR didn't cause it) and the description lists files and changes that aren't in the diff, so I'm escalating instead of approving.

Findings

• major: {"severity":"major","category":"correctness","message":"The checkout pins ref v1 of petry-projects/.github, but scripts/agent-rate-limit-gate.sh exists only on main (28115 bytes) and NOT at v1 (404; v1 is commit d3d768d from 2026-05-13). 'bash .arl-gate-tooling/scripts/agent-rate-limit-gate.sh' fails with 127, '|| true' swallows the failure, and no decision is written, so the '!= defer' guard always dispatches. The enforcing canary for #640/SonarCloud modernization (2/3): test-utils & build scripts #443 does nothing while appearing deployed, and continue-on-error hides that. Fix upstream in petry-projects/.github by cutting a release tag that contains the gate (pin to its SHA or a protected channel tag), or pin the checkout to a commit SHA that has the script. Add a ::warning:: when the decision is empty so fail-open is visible.","file":".github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml","line":106}
• minor: {"severity":"minor","category":"supply-chain","message":"The gate script runs with a cross-repo-write PAT (GH_PAT_DON_PETRY || GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS) in GH_TOKEN, from a tag ref rather than a commit SHA. Mitigations: the active 'release-channel-tags' ruleset on petry-projects/.github blocks update and deletion on refs/tags/**, persist-credentials is false, and the code is first-party with the same trust as the fleet's @…-stable reusable workflows that already get these PATs. Remaining risk: a ruleset bypass actor (not visible to this token) could move the tag. Pinning to a full SHA would close this and fix the missing-script problem above.","file":".github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml","line":106}
• minor: {"severity":"minor","category":"ci-weakening","message":"continue-on-error: true at lines 102 and 118 plus '|| true' sit on operational admission-control steps, not test, lint or security gates. That doesn't weaken any quality gate, and failing open is the documented ADR design. It does mean silent failures, which is exactly how the missing script went unnoticed. Not a true CI-weakening violation by itself.","file":".github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml","line":102}
• minor: {"severity":"minor","category":"ci-status","message":"The required check 'dependency-audit / npm audit' FAILS. The latest dependency-audit run on main (8318036, 2026-10-01) fails too, so this is a newly published advisory against existing dependencies, not something this PR introduced. The CI-green gate is still not met, and mergeStateStatus is BLOCKED.","file":null,"line":null}
• minor: {"severity":"minor","category":"description-quality","message":"The description lists pr-auto-review.yml and a js-yaml 4.3.2 lockfile bump, but the diff touches only initiative-driver.yml; those changes probably reached main through the repeated main merges. There's no linked issue, and the risk, test-plan and rollback sections are missing.","file":null,"line":null}
• info: {"severity":"info","category":"correctness","message":"The header says the gate serializes bursts 'AHEAD of the cancel-in-progress concurrency group', but concurrency is set at workflow level (lines 65-70), so the gate runs inside the group. Fix this in the upstream source stub, along with the adoption docs at lines 43-47 that still name only GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS.","file":".github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml","line":36}
• info: {"severity":"info","category":"injection","message":"Checked and fine: github.actor, github.repository and the issue number reach the gate through env vars and are quoted in the script. No attacker-controlled event fields (titles, bodies, labels) are interpolated into run:. The final dispatch step's ${{ github.repository }} inline expansion was already there and isn't attacker-controlled. Triggers are issues, schedule and workflow_dispatch, with no pull_request_target. The permissions block stays contents: read.","file":".github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml","line":129}

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Reviewed by the PR-review cascade (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5.5, sonnet 5] → deep: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, sonnet 5.5] + duck: gemini-3.8-flash [sonnet 5.5] → audit: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, opus 4.7]). Reply if you need a human review.

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Dev-Lead — fix-bot-comment (applied)

Changes committed and pushed.

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All reported issues were addressed across 2 files

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-10-02T00:45:47Z.

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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (partial)

A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:

• .github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:144 — not applied
• .github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:106 — not applied
• .github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:102 — applied
• .github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:137 — applied

The unaddressed items above still need work.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

See analysis details on SonarQube Cloud

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-10-02T00:52:30Z.

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dev-lead is withholding action on this item.

It is labeled needs-human-review (flagged for human review — this label is applied by automation as well as by people, so an item can become held without anyone noticing), so dev-lead will not pick it up while that label is present. This notice is posted once so the withhold is visible rather than looking like a stalled run.

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@donpetry-bot review. The needs-human-review label is removed, and the two cubic threads are resolved with rationale (the stub is a synced standard file, so changes belong upstream).

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Review — fix requested (cycle 2/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 21ef5a49cac2caec0d9de3ac8bfd7fe442fe4aa5
Cascade: triage → audit (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5.5, sonnet 5] → deep: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, sonnet 5.5] + duck: gemini-3.8-flash [sonnet 5.5] → audit: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, opus 4.7])

Summary

No injection or secret-leak path found. Triggers are issues/schedule/workflow_dispatch (no pull_request_target), untrusted values like github.actor are passed through env rather than interpolated into run blocks, actions/checkout is pinned to a verified v7.0.1 SHA, and the lockfile bumps match registry integrity from the legitimate publishers. Escalating anyway for four reasons: the deterministic CI-weakening hard-stop fired (continue-on-error plus || true, a deliberately fail-open gate); the org PAT will be handed to a script fetched from the v1 tag of petry-projects/.github, a tag the tag ruleset blocks from being moved, though org admins can still edit that ruleset; the gate is inert today because the script returns 404 at v1; and the stub is not verbatim (it has local edits compared with the upstream source of truth) and carries an out-of-scope lockfile change.

Findings

• MAJOR: The deterministic hard-stop CI_WEAKENING_DETECTED fired. Both new steps use continue-on-error: true and the gate invocation ends in || true, so checkout or PAT-scope failures and gate crashes never fail the job. The design is intentionally fail-open and documented, but a human has to accept it explicitly. Automated approval is not allowed. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:102)
• MAJOR: GH_TOKEN is set to the cross-repo PAT (GH_PAT_DON_PETRY || GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS) for a step that runs bash from petry-projects/.github@v1. Checked: the release-channel-tags ruleset is active on refs/tags/** with update+deletion rules and no bypass actors, so v1 cannot be silently moved. That lowers the risk, but the PAT's trust boundary is still a tag plus a ruleset that org admins can edit, not an immutable SHA. When v1 is re-cut to include the script, unreviewed code (from this repo's point of view) starts running with the PAT. Pinning the tooling checkout to a commit SHA would be stronger. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:107)
• MAJOR: The gate is inert at the pinned ref. Checked: scripts/agent-rate-limit-gate.sh returns 404 at petry-projects/.github@v1 (d3d768d, 359 commits behind main) and exists on main. Every run will hit the warning path and dispatch without throttling, so the 'enforcing canary' described in the header and PR body is not in effect. It will turn on silently whenever v1 is advanced. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:107)
• MINOR: The stub is not a verbatim copy of the source of truth. Compared with petry-projects/.github@main standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml, commit 21ef5a4 ('address review comments') added two step-level timeout-minutes: 1 lines and a new 'Warn — rate-limit gate produced no decision' step. That contradicts the PR body's 'deployed verbatim' claim and the AGENTS.md rule against editing thin caller stubs. The next sync will overwrite or conflict with these edits; they should be upstreamed instead. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:140)
• MINOR: The header claims the gate serializes bursts 'AHEAD of the cancel-in-progress concurrency group'. That cannot happen: workflow-level concurrency cancels the earlier run before any step executes, so an in-run gate cannot preempt it. A cancelled run may also still look in_progress to the next run's gate, which can cause a spurious defer. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:36)
• MINOR: package-lock.json bumps brace-expansion 5.0.9→5.0.12 and fast-uri 3.1.7→3.1.8 (commit 03a4149, npm audit fix) in a PR labeled as a standards stub sync. Checked: the integrity hashes match the npm registry, and the publishers are juliangruber and matteo.collina, so there are no supply-chain red flags. The change is still out of scope and is not what the body describes (the body claims a js-yaml 4.3.2 update and pr-auto-review.yml sync, and neither is in the diff). (package-lock.json:2886)
• MINOR: The PR description lacks risk, test-plan and rollback sections and links no issue. The bot-generated summaries describe changes that are not in the diff.
• INFO: No expression injection. github.actor, github.repository and github.event.issue.number reach the script only through env vars and are quoted in bash. The issues trigger is not pull_request_target and does not check out untrusted PR code. persist-credentials: false is set on the tooling checkout. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:120)
• INFO: Adoption step 3 in the header still names only GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS, although the steps now prefer GH_PAT_DON_PETRY. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver.yml:43)

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Reviewed by the PR-review cascade (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5.5, sonnet 5] → deep: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, sonnet 5.5] + duck: gemini-3.8-flash [sonnet 5.5] → audit: opus 5.5 [opus 4.8, opus 4.7]). Reply if you need a human review.

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1. Resolve all unresolved review thread comments from other reviewers
2. Ensure all CI checks pass after your changes
3. Rebase on the target branch if behind
4. Do NOT modify files unrelated to the findings above

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Closing: pr-review (cycle 2/3, MEDIUM) found this is not a verbatim stub sync. Commit 21ef5a4 edited the synced stub locally, so the next sync would overwrite or conflict with it. The new rate-limit gate also does nothing: scripts/agent-rate-limit-gate.sh returns 404 at petry-projects/.github@v1, so every run dispatches unthrottled. The gate steps are fail-open (continue-on-error plus || true), which blocks automated approval, and the diff carries unrelated package-lock.json changes. Superseded by a clean upstream sync once the gate script is on v1.